How Buyers Forecast: Buyer – Seller Relationship as a Boundary Condition of the Impact Bias
Monga, Ashwani, Allan Chen, Michael Tsiros, and Mona Srivastava (2012), “How Buyers Forecast: Buyer–Seller Relationship,” Marketing Letters, 23 (1), 31-45.
Posted: 13 Apr 2016 Last revised: 29 Mar 2019
Date Written: April 11, 2016
Abstract
People frequently overestimate the impact of an event when they imagine it, relative to when they actually experience it. This phenomenon, known as the impact bias, has been well established as an intrapersonal phenomenon. We extend it to the inherently interpersonal marketing setting involving buyer – seller dyads in which the two entities are bound by a relationship, and propose a moderating effect based on the strength of the buyer – seller relationship. An online panel study and three laboratory experiments provide converging evidence such that the impact bias emerges when the buyer – seller relationship is strong, but disappears when the relationship is weak.
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